Plant Capsicum frutescens (Solanaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Cayenne; Chili; Tabasco; Hot Pepper; Spur Pepper; Red Chili

How this plant is used

Food

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
STIGMASTEROL	12	Fruit	10.0	20.0	-0.90	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
TERPINEN-4-OL	23	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TETRADECANE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THIAMIN	31	Fruit	0.0	8.0	0.34	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
THREONINE	4	Fruit	740.0	6038.0	1.26	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
THUJONE	17	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TITANIUM	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TOCOPHEROL	93	Fruit	not available	24.0	-0.49	Duke, 1992 *
TOLUENE	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-2-HEXEN-1-OL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRYPTOPHAN	29	Fruit	260.0	2122.0	1.78	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
TYROSINE	8	Fruit	420.0	3427.0	0.42	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
VALERIC-ACID	9	Resin, Exudate, Sap	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALINE	3	Fruit	840.0	6854.0	0.50	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
VANILLYL-AMIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VANILLYL-AMINE	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VIOLAXANTHIN	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VIT-B-6	0	Fruit	3.0	23.0	2.49	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
WATER	0	Fruit	70000.0	889550.0	0.52	Duke, 1992 *
XANTHOPHYLL-EPOXIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor	6	Hagerman, A.E. Tannin-Protein Interactions. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.19.
Osteogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Osteolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Oviposition-Stimulant	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ovulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Oxidant	2	Larson, R.A. 1987. Review Article Number 30. The Antioxidants of Higher Plants. Phytochemistry. 27: 969-978.
Ozone-Scavenger	1	Duke, 1992 *
P21-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
P450-2B1-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
P450-Inducer	4	Duke, 1992 *
P450-Inhibitor	1	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
PAF-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Pediculicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Percutaneostimulant	1	Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990.
Perfume	1	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Perfumery	19	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Peristaltic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Pesticide	43	Duke, 1992 *
PGE2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Phagocytotic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).